File-wrapper.



PATBNTED SEPT. 4, 1906.

E. 0. ZIEGLER. FILE WRAPPER.

APPLICATION 2mm NOV. 21. 1904.

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UNITED STATES ELSIE C. ZIEGLER, OF NEWV ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

FILE-WRAPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

Application filed November 21,1904. Serial No. 233,731.

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, Emma C. ZIEGLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in File-I/Vrappers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to file-wrappers.

In file-wrappers employing elastic or other endless bands for holding the inclosing flaps upon the body-piece the bands in the course of time lose their elasticity or become worn out and have to be renewed. The methods heretofore employed for securing the bands to the file-wrapper have made the renewing of these bands a rather tedious performance, as the cord from which the band was made was first threaded through small openings and then tied into a knot to form the band. In many instances the band was too large or too small to pass around the wrapper, thereby making an insecure and unsatisfactory fastening.

It is an object of my invention to so form the file-wrapper that the endless bands may be formed before they are placed on the filewrappers, so that they will be of proper length and that they may be quickly and easily secured in place without threading them through small openings.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the following description and will be more particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view showing one embodiment of my file-wrapper in open position. Fig. 2 is a front view, in closed position, of the file-wrapper shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail front view of the front piece and side flaps. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of Fig. 2 on the line B B of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section on the line a a, Fig. 1.

The file employed for the illustration of m invention comprises two sheets of cardboarc One of said sheets is scored or folded twice to provide a front piece 12 and two side flaps 13 14, While the other of said sheets is likewise scored or folded twice to provide end flaps l5 and 16 and an end connecting-piece 17,

which is secured to the front piece 12 by a metallic fastening 18 or otherwise.

The front piece 12 is provided with one or more slits 19, having enlarged ends 20. EX- tending across each slit is a slit-covering piece or tongue 21, which has one end 22 free. Tongues 21 are formed on the end-connecting piece 17 intermediate its ends. The piece 17 is preferably provided with approximately U-shaped or other slits 23 to form the tongues 21, the ends of the slits being enlarged and alining with the ends of the slit in the front piece 12' The elastic or other band 27 is secured to the file-wrapper by inserting a folded end through the slit 19 and then passing it around the free end of the tongue or slit-covering piece 2]. This, as will be seen, obviates the necessity of threading a cord through small openings and then forming the band, and it will be seen that an ordinary rubber or elastic band may be employed. The file-Wrapper is held closed in the usual manner by passing the bands, after the flaps are closed, around the ends of the file-wrapper. The embodiment herein shown is for the purpose of illust1 ation only, and I therefore desire it to be understood that I may make various changes Within the scope of the appended claim Without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim is In a file-wrapper, the combination of the front piece provided with a slit spaced irom the edges of the front piece, side flaps extend ing from the front piece, end flaps, an. end flap-connecting piece secured to the front piece, an endless elastic band fitted through the slit in the front piece, and a band-retaining piece covering the slit in the front piece and having a free end adapted to receive said endless band.

The foregoing specification signed this 14th day of November, 1904.

ELSIE C. ZIEGLER.

In presence of- MAX HUBERT, F. J. TILLOTSON. 

